MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

Innovate and Inspire, both uttered in one breath… two powerful and influential words that have helped shape the Philippine Nurses Association of America (PNAA) since I served as its President. It is serendipitous indeed that the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) 2018 Nurses’ Week theme is Nurses: Inspire, Innovate and Influence.
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PNAA National Convention – July 24-29, 2018 New Jersey. Applications for the nursing excellence Awards can also be submitted by mailing 1 USB with both the original application & The blinded copies together with all supporting documents.

Applicant must check selection as it applies and attach evidence (CV not considered). Validator must validate both selection and evidence. To be considered as potential awardee, the applicant must have > 90 points.

All documents: Curriculum Vitae (CV), completed application form, 2x2 size photo, signed agreement for publishing and supporting documents photographed from its original form are to be emailed to Grace Diaz-Font at gfontrn@sbcglobal.net . There should be 2 complete sets of application, one with the identifying information and another without any obvious identifying information for the blind review.

Here’s yet another pride for PNAA. Congratulations are in order for the paper "Filipino Nurses in the United States" by Leo-Felix M. Jurado, PhD, RN, APN, CNE, NE-BC, FAAN and Marlon Garzo Saria, PhD, RN, AOCNS, FAAN that made the cover page of Nursing Management, March 2018.

The Journal of Nursing Practice Applications & Reviews of Research (JNPARR), the official international, peer-reviewed publication of the Philippine Nurses Association of America, is calling for authors to submt manuscripts. The JNPARR covers topics on Nursing Practice, Education, Administration and Research.

Please take this short survey to give us important feedback about PNAA and its chapters. Your responses will help us evaluate the services we provide so we can strive to be better and meet your needs. DEADLINE: April 30, 2018

On behalf of Philippine Nurses Association of America (PNAA), I write to urge support for Assembly Bill (AB) 2034, a bill that will require transit employees in bus, train, or light-rail operations to undergo human trafficking awareness training by January, 2020.

We, the undersigned organizations, share a commitment to keep children, parents, families, teachers, responders, and administrators safe. We are writing to urge Congressional leadership to launch a bipartisan National Commission on Mass Shootings within the next thirty days.

Philippine Nurses Association of America (PNAA) Inc. is the professional organization of Filipino-American Nurses with over 4,000 members, majority of which are legal immigrants. PNAA strongly opposes the repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This program was created under the Obama Administration in 2012 that allowed nearly 5,000 young Filipinos – along with 800,000 other individuals – to receive work permits and to be protected from deportation. DACA has afforded true representation of security and opportunity of the American Dream.

The Philippine Nurses Association of America (PNAA) joins the American Nurses Association (ANA), the Utah Nurses Association (UNA) and registered nurses across the country in voicing against the atrocity over the treatment of a registered nurse in Utah who was handcuffed and arrested by a police officer for following her oath, the hospital's policy and the US Constitution.

The Journal of Nursing Practice Applications & Reviews of Research (JNPARR), the official international, peer-reviewed publication of the Philippine Nurses Association of America, is calling for authors to submt manuscripts. The JNPARR covers topics on Nursing Practice, Education, Administration and Research.

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The Philippine Nurses Association of America (PNAA) is proud to announce that it has selected four (4) distinguished nurse leaders as its 2017 Leadership Fellows. The PNAA Leadership Fellows Program is a yearlong program that supports the leadership development of Filipino descent in the United States through education and mentorship. This initiative serves as a vehicle to engage and empower nurses who seek high-level careers in leadership and management, education and research.

Please take time to nominate your nurse colleague, peer, friend, mentor and/or leader for the 2017 PNAA Nursing Excellence Awards. Download Nomination Forms here. Deadline for electronic submission for all nominations: on or before 11:59 PM Pacific time on February 10th, 2017.

PNAA invites you to submit your completed clinical, leadership, or research projects for presentation. We also want to invite Masters and Doctoral students to submit an abstract of their thesis, capstone or dissertation proposal for a Dialogue with Researchers: a Proposal Critique Session. Deadline: April 1, 2017.

In recognition of her more than 40 years as a nurse, educator and advocate focused on cancer survivorship, Dr. Karen Meneses has been named UAB’s 2016 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, the Academic Health Center’s most prestigious faculty award.

The Journal of Nursing Practice Applications & Reviews of Research, the official international, peer-reviewed publication of the Philippine Nurses Association of America, is calling for authors to submit manuscripts. Deadline for Submission: March 30, 2017, Publication Date: July 2017.

Malacañang Palace, December 19, 2016 - In conferring the Banaag Award to the Philippine Nurses Association of Metropolitan D.C. Inc., the President recognizes its exemplary services in helping Filipino nurses be integrated in Metropolitan D.C., and philanthropic spirit in helping thousands of underprivileged individuals and families in the United States of America and the Philippines.

The Philippine Nurses Association of America (PNAA) asserts that a successful rehabilitation program is an essential component of the War on Drugs. The right to treatment is a fundamental right, rehabilitation treatment is a health right – certainly, it falls under the scope and range of Human Rights.